October 14, 201213 yr I backup into a live backup HDD and once every 6 months (more or less), i backup into a standby HDD. I just can't afford to lose my data. CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
October 14, 201213 yr Moderator I feel your pain, Anthony! Last week my backup flightsim test computer's hard drive lost it's boot sector entirely. Fortunately, I managed to retrieve the data contents via a dual-port docking station (BlackX). Two days later, my main development machine died with a scrambled Vista 32 OS. I had to replace the machine with a new one that's frankly a bit of overkill for what I run on it (i7 3770 w/ 16GB memory). It took me several days to get all of my tools reinstalled and configured; Max9 SP2, Photoshop CS8, GMax, DXTBMP, and a dozen or so additional tools. I haven't had time yet to remove the HD from the old dev machine to attempt retrieving the C gauge source files, but hopefully that will work also, otherwise I'll have to rely on my last backups. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
October 14, 201213 yr Author So, as an extension to all this discussion how many people do clean installs (O.S included) on a regular basis, say annually just for basic "housekeeping"? Do you believe clean installations breath life into a PC? My PC is almost 3 yrs old now and although I have no obvious problems my FSX load times are getting painfully slow. BTW, I defrag and run CCleaner regularly. Anthony O'Brien
October 14, 201213 yr Gosh guys, I'd re-install the OS on my FSX machine pretty much every year, wiping all data in the process. I mean, I have all my installers and serials backed up on my laptops and external hard drives, but I still have to reinstall, re-configure, re-tweak everything etc. Takes me a full day to do, but once you've done it once, it's fairly easy to do it again... Regards, Ró. Rónán O Cadhain.
October 15, 201213 yr Gosh guys, I'd re-install the OS on my FSX machine pretty much every year, wiping all data in the process. I mean, I have all my installers and serials backed up on my laptops and external hard drives, but I still have to reinstall, re-configure, re-tweak everything etc. Takes me a full day to do, but once you've done it once, it's fairly easy to do it again... Regards, Ró. When you are in the mood. Sometimes just thinking about doing it brings up things one might be similarly fond of. Root canals comes to mind. ^_^ We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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